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The horrible images broadcast from Houston, Beaumont, and other Texas communities after Hurricane Harvey dropped its historic rainfall show what can happen when government botches basic obligations and makes a bad situation even worse.
The law requires companies that want to develop sulfide mines in Wisconsin to show another mine that has operated for 10 years and been closed for 10 years without polluting groundwater and surface water.
As Congress pivots to tax reform, some lawmakers have considered raising taxes on energy developers to pay for tax cuts elsewhere. Such tax hikes would slam Wisconsin’s natural gas industry, leading to higher utility costs and fewer jobs.
Forget what you have been led to believe, the Foxconn deal in not economic development. In truth, it’s nothing more than corporate welfare and a boondoggle in the making.
Gov. Scott Walker has proposed a fast-tracked bill that hands unprecedented autonomy to a Taiwanese corporation, Foxconn, over the waters of Wisconsin.
Foxconn will cost 11 times more per job than Walker’s deal with Haribo.
As the campaign unfolds, it will be abundantly clear that the stakes this time are every bit as crucial as in the last two campaigns.
New federal data for 2015 provide a fresh look at K-12 expenditures here and elsewhere—without the “spin” in which Wisconsin politicians engage.
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is facing a new, post-Hurricane Harvey normal, but you don’t hear him saying what GOP officials have evaded, down-played and flat-out denied for years–that climate change is part of that new normal.
While the scenes of devastation after the flood waters recede will look the same, the paths that America’s two latest disaster zones will take from here couldn’t be any more different.
Many are affected in Milwaukee. So what are government leaders doing about it?
Democratic candidates for governor oppose deal. Could they kill it if elected?
Handing over billions of dollars to a foreign corporation for a shaky pledge of jobs, as many as half of which could by taken by people from Illinois, is a bad deal for Wisconsin.
The second annual State of Cities and Villages Report shows that after being shaken hard by the Great Recession and constrained by levy limits and flat state aids, cities and villages are investing in their future, preparing for new development.
Clinton’s failure to visit Wisconsin is often cited as one reason she lost our state’s electoral votes, and the election, last November. Now she’s visiting the state she snubbed in 2016.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the dispute over the Boy Scouts possibly allowing girls to join in some events.
Confederate imagery is just as indefensible as Nazi and Communist symbolism.
Kasich, Romney and Gallagher demonstrate leadership in the Republican Party.
For all the mess and dysfunction that is the “Washington Swamp,” and for all the frustration many of us have with the Republicans inability to get things done, the problem is not Ryan.
For populations across Wisconsin that are unemployed, underemployed, or have not previously been part of the workforce, Foxconn provides transformational opportunity.
The horrible images broadcast from Houston, Beaumont, and other Texas communities after Hurricane Harvey dropped its historic rainfall show what can happen when government botches basic obligations and makes a bad situation even worse.
The law requires companies that want to develop sulfide mines in Wisconsin to show another mine that has operated for 10 years and been closed for 10 years without polluting groundwater and surface water.
As Congress pivots to tax reform, some lawmakers have considered raising taxes on energy developers to pay for tax cuts elsewhere. Such tax hikes would slam Wisconsin’s natural gas industry, leading to higher utility costs and fewer jobs.
Forget what you have been led to believe, the Foxconn deal in not economic development. In truth, it’s nothing more than corporate welfare and a boondoggle in the making.
Gov. Scott Walker has proposed a fast-tracked bill that hands unprecedented autonomy to a Taiwanese corporation, Foxconn, over the waters of Wisconsin.
Foxconn will cost 11 times more per job than Walker’s deal with Haribo.
As the campaign unfolds, it will be abundantly clear that the stakes this time are every bit as crucial as in the last two campaigns.
New federal data for 2015 provide a fresh look at K-12 expenditures here and elsewhere—without the “spin” in which Wisconsin politicians engage.
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is facing a new, post-Hurricane Harvey normal, but you don’t hear him saying what GOP officials have evaded, down-played and flat-out denied for years–that climate change is part of that new normal.
While the scenes of devastation after the flood waters recede will look the same, the paths that America’s two latest disaster zones will take from here couldn’t be any more different.
Many are affected in Milwaukee. So what are government leaders doing about it?
Democratic candidates for governor oppose deal. Could they kill it if elected?
Handing over billions of dollars to a foreign corporation for a shaky pledge of jobs, as many as half of which could by taken by people from Illinois, is a bad deal for Wisconsin.
The second annual State of Cities and Villages Report shows that after being shaken hard by the Great Recession and constrained by levy limits and flat state aids, cities and villages are investing in their future, preparing for new development.
Clinton’s failure to visit Wisconsin is often cited as one reason she lost our state’s electoral votes, and the election, last November. Now she’s visiting the state she snubbed in 2016.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the dispute over the Boy Scouts possibly allowing girls to join in some events.
Confederate imagery is just as indefensible as Nazi and Communist symbolism.
Kasich, Romney and Gallagher demonstrate leadership in the Republican Party.
For all the mess and dysfunction that is the “Washington Swamp,” and for all the frustration many of us have with the Republicans inability to get things done, the problem is not Ryan.
For populations across Wisconsin that are unemployed, underemployed, or have not previously been part of the workforce, Foxconn provides transformational opportunity.
